THE NATIONAL Sports Commission (NSC), through Director of Sport Christopher Jones, assisted several sports clubs, individuals and a promoter, on Monday, for recognition of their outstanding achievement and upcoming events.
High on the list was 2019 CARIFTA gold medallist Anisha Gibbons, who received a new javelin after Jones learnt last week that the youngster’s training javelin was 45 years old.
Jones also asked that the 1974 javelin be placed in a history corner at the Bygeval Multilateral School so that it can be preserved for all to see. Jones will soon visit the school to get a firsthand look at the equipment.
The Director of Sport also congratulated Gibbons’ PE teacher, Raymond Daw, and encouraged him to help develop future gold medallists.
Gibbons won the country’s first javelin medal at the recently concluded Games, which was held in the Cayman Islands. She threw the equipment 40.34 metres in the U-17 division.
Meanwhile Jones also supported the Buxton Carl Hooper Cricket Club (CC) team, which will be leaving Guyana today to compete in Trinidad and Tobago.
Also benefitting were cyclist Walter Grant-Stuart, Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, Tran$cend Entertainment (which is hosting an upcoming tapeball competition) and the New Beginners Cooperative Society Limited (which will be organising football and softball cricket competitions for males and females on May 5 at the Kildonan Community Centre ground.
